Criminal Justice Recovery Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To accept referrals from other agencies for those engaged with the criminal justice system, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system.
• To provide inc-reach to a range of criminal justice settings to engage offenders in drug treatment this includes custody centres, prisons, courts and probation offices
• Provide interventions with an emphasis on health and wellbeing and interventions aimed at reducing drug use and associated criminal behaviour
• Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A,B and C and other blood borne infections
• Be responsible for maintaining a full case load of criminal justice clients as the key worker.
• To make home visits consistent with need.
• To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
• To assist and support medical and nurse prescribers during harm reduction and prescribing clinics.
• To provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques, with a view to improving health and wellbeing and reducing drug use and associated crime
• Make domiciliary visits to service users particularly for those with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
• Retain contact with service users whilst they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units including visits when required.
• To create and facilitate group work interventions for criminal justice clients
• To provide a needle exchange service and naloxone.
• Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement.
• To work with a range of professional in ensuring service users needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.
• Carryout needle exchanges, home visits and the running of clinics.
• Encourage and work with service users to move forward in their recovery
• Encourage and work intensively with service users to support them move away from maintenance treatment where appropriate

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies

Desirable

• A professional qualification in Social Work, Probation, Nursing, Psychology, Youth and Community etc.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Inclusion

Address

Hampshire -

Winchester / Eastleigh / New Forest

SO23 8AH

Employer's website

https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)